Rogue Weapon Choice

[Tilbin]

What are most rogues using as their primary weapon?

I've read through posts and I've seen TWC, THW, Ranged and OHE with shield.

Thanks!

[Kitsun]

Post-cap Ranged use here. It's the closest a square can hunt like a pure.

[Mumblz]

Went from postcap plate sniper (ranged+hiding) to post cap plate + UAC (UAC+hiding). Love not picking up arrows.

[Rhovan]

TWC and hiding through postcap. Used to use longswords for viability in every situation, but my main is now a handaxe. I only 2x hiding and critters can be difficult to hide from in the Rift, so a higher chance to finish them off in one blow helps.

Daggers to the eye are nice and quick, but I found they often didn't have enough punch for me.

I enjoy hunting as I do, but trying out a ranged Ranger definately makes me think ranged is much more effecient.

[Tilbin]

My rogue is in his 50's. I brought him back from many years ago and he was sword/board. Unfortunately, I didn't read much about how sword/board isn't really a great option anymore.

Does anyone use sword/board these days?

[Allereli]

Does anyone use sword/board these days?

I have a little forest gnome sword and boarding rogue (only 17) that goes around kicking everything in the nuts

[kutter]

I would argue that an ambushing sword/board rogue is still an excellent option. It is not as 'sexy' as some of the other builds, but I rarely die and I still get a lot of one shot kills with an aimed short sword or handaxe.

[SHAFT]

Nothing to me would be as efficient as a sniping rogue with a longbow. Preferably an ebow of some type. Pew pew from the shadows

[Buckwheet]

Nothing to me would be as efficient as a sniping rogue with a longbow. Preferably an ebow of some type. Pew pew from the shadows

Any of the classes that can 2x hide with the camo breastplate sniping. That includes rogues so I guess you still win. DAMN IT!

[DaCapn]

Does anyone use sword/board these days?

It's still viable. Kitsun summed it up pretty well:

Post-cap Ranged use here. It's the closest a square can hunt like a pure.

Gear can be spendier (I had to spend a lot on strength enhancives) and it's higher maintenance, but mechanically superior.

Personally, I was sword/board up through level 60ish. If I was doing a rogue all over again, I'd probably do it similarly. THW is also pretty good. In my opinion, THW works the best with 410. You can prone the whole room, then smash heads one at a time with a maul. It works well and can be accomplished by mid-low 30s but it's too TP-intensive to also do picking.

For sword/board, handaxe is the way to go early on, then as you get more weighting from ambushing you can use daggers and get more reliable kills. Good CM choices make a difference as well.

With respect to some of the comments about hiding...

I've probably got one of the higher hide modifiers out there (capped halfling rogue, 3x hide, smastery master, tier 2 armored stealth in double leathers, and +43 in hide enhancives). There are some things you straight up can't hide from. Ghost wolves (and I think cold guardians), for instance, will sniff you out every single time. Rift crawlers are tough to hide from, arctic wolverines as well. I've got no trouble hiding from cerebralites. I've started doing some foraging on planes 1 & 2 and I can walk around 100% stealth. So, plane 4 I'm definitely combat-effective stealth-wise and on plane 1-2 I might as well be invisible. I don't think I ever muck around on plane 3.

There's certainly a distinction between creatures searching you out of hiding and being revealed from hiding while sniping, by the way. I can easily fire and remain hidden in front of ghost wolves.